{"id":11010,"date":"2023-08-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11010"},"modified":"2023-08-01T11:21:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T17:21:15","slug":"prayers-or-charms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11010","title":{"rendered":"Prayers or Charms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Watch What You Ask For<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, August 5, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Magic Mushroom,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

or<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s Spores of Poison<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cleaning the Ground?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psalm 5:2-3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you I pray. O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I plead my case to you, and watch.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark 11:24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words of Grace For Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prayer works kind of like a charm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you think the charm works you will see it working (kind of making it up to see it) and if you think your prayers are heard you will see and hear God answering (though, not really making it up to see and hear God.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The charm thing is our brains reaching for rationalizations to affirm our crazy need to have some control over our lives (or at least explain how someone or something else has made things better for us, assuming the charm is good. I guess the same thing would apply to a curse?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prayer things is our brains and spirit being pulled into God\u2019s reality that is everything, though many times we think to separate \u2018our world\u2019 from God\u2019s reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the old saying goes, though, be careful what you wish for, because<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because if you look for charms and curses, you will find them plenty enough to build an undying fear in your bones – fear of what curses lie ahead and fear of what charms you will miss out on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because once you allow yourself to see and hear God nothing remains the same!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you thought was your own life, your own possessions, your own rights and obligations disappear like the last smoke from a snuffed candle. You may \u2018smell\u2019 the smoke of all that was yours for a long time, but it just is not there. Everything you thought was yours is clarified to be God\u2019s on loan to you for you to be a good steward of, and to share in the best possible way with those most in need in God\u2019s good creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then every morning, noon, and night you will find yourself in conversation with God your creator, asking and pleading, and complaining and grouching, thanking and praising. The life that God loans to each of us is never easy, and it can only be tolerated if we finds our own value and worth in God: created by God, measured by God, redeemed by God (at the highest price possible, God\u2019s Son\u2019s life), purposed by God, and accompanied by God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we see and hear God walking with us, then what may look to others, and even to our old sinful selves, to be intolerable or undesirable, in truth is the best life has to offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charms and curses befuddle us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prayer connects us to God\u2019s reality for us. And then<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As our lives constantly change<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to be as God intended us to live, when God created us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is another day, running in fear from reality or seeing and hearing God (and seeing and hearing God changing us).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watch What You Ask For Saturday, August 5, 2023 Magic Mushroom, or God\u2019s Spores of Poison Cleaning the Ground? Psalm 5:2-3 Listen to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you I pray. O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I plead my case to … Continue reading “Prayers or Charms”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,88,29,34,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-healing","category-love-and-hope","category-perspective","category-sacramental-mystic","category-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11013,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions\/11013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}